Speaker
Shantanu Desai
(IIT Hyderabad)
Description
Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) use an ensemble of highly stable millisecond pulsars to detect the nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB), expected to arise primarily from a population of inspiralling supermassive black hole binaries. In addition to the detection of this stochastic background, PTAs can probe a wide range of astrophysical phenomena, including tests of gravity. I shall discuss the current status and present recent results from the Indo-Japanese Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA), including its Data Release 2 (DR2) and latest results related to gravitational wave searches.
Primary author
Shantanu Desai
(IIT Hyderabad)
